well colin my computer and i would be spending some quality time together graham my guitar is already a bit jealous but my wife often says things like how much time can you spend on the damn computer/guitar i have installed mandriva (hooray for me!!) but i can't get onto the internet with it yet as it keeps asking questions about my modem that i don't know the answer to like it keeps asking for it's code i have tried several times now to shout at it that it is an asdl i think from freeserve and doesn't have any codes but to no avail

one final obvious question can you download(if i can get onto the internet) development tools for real languages not just scripts for people who can't/are afraid to compile, because when i ran the pclinux live cd it had a C compiler and IDLE for scripters where this mandriva has none
paul

1slipperyfish wrote:well colin my computer and i would be spending some quality time together graham my guitar is already a bit jealous but my wife often says things like how much time can you spend on the damn computer/guitar

You name your computer colin and your guitar graham, yet your partner is simply called "wife"?

Well, 1sf, I have had a look at the LXF DVD version of Mandriva and it has the gcc compiler various bits of php stuff and so on. Perhaps you just haven't installed them.
I don't think you get java with the free version, but packages are available, including things like eclipse (I expect it will be with the jpackage stuff).

yes i have looked at the mandrake site and it mentioned the gcc compiler command line coding woohooo hardcore but i still can't find anything about configuring my modem, just adverts for linux modems, with one promising link for how to code it in c but it was a load of rubbish anyone can print linux blah blah blah at command prompt so i can't download anything at the minute if i do config my modem through source code or whatever will it still work with windows ? otherwise we will have a quiet household with no-one speaking to me paul

If you'd looked at that paper thing stuck to the back of the DVD, you would have seen that it recommended selecting the Development group when installing

Your ADSL modem sounds like a Speedtouch. You need to download a file containing some microcode for the driver to work. The nicrocode file is free, but not freely distributable, so Mandr* cannot include it in the distro.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

charming i have been looking into c programming (sorry it's the wrong forum) how basic is that in fact we may as well code basic or python rather than c i thought we had gotten away from all that i know i bang on about it but java is so clean compared with c i found the same with c++ it's just so crudesorry now i've had my moan paul

I know next to nothing, but visualy I think Python is nicer as its uses white space and indenting to dictate where sections of code begin and end, instead of in java where its covered in squigly brackets.
So it solves both the syntax issue while keeping uniformed looking code too.

nelz wrote:There is the "Open Desktop" edition, but the licence specifically prohibits copying or redistribution. There's nothing in the GPL to stop someone bundling GPLed software with proprietary, so the whole collection cannot be freely distributed. SUSE used to do this before they were acquired by Novell and Red Hat stopped us including their distro on the cover discs from about RH8.

Hi all,

It's funny how things work out ) - I have just bought "apc magazine" in Australia and was surprised to find Xandros Open Circulation Edition as an ISO on the DVD. I have checked the EULA and it can be included and distributed. The relevant section of the EULA is below and the full EULA is available at: http://www.xandros.com/products/home/de ... cense.html

EULA

6. DISTRIBUTION

(a) Subject to the restrictions contained in Section 5 hereof, You may distribute copies of the Software Product provided that:

1. a copy of this EULA is included with the Software Program and the user of the Software Program agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions hereof;

2. You do not charge a license fee for the Software Product, provided that you may charge a nominal fee to compensate you for the direct costs associated with Your redistribution of the Software Product;

3. the Software Product has not been altered or modified in any way;

4. the Software Product is the most recent version made available by Xandros;

5. the following copyright notice shall be conspicuously displayed in such distribution: "Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation Edition, (c) Xandros Corporation 2003-2005. All rights reserved."; and

6. You comply with all export laws, rules and regulations in the jurisdictions where the Software Product, including any Software Programs, are exported or re-exported from time to time.